Property:continent

[mtrekels]

Label	Continent
Definition	The name of the continent in which the Location occurs.
Usage	The name of the continent from which objects in the collection originated.
Existing property	dwc:continent
Existing class	Location
Existing property identifier	http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/continent
Format	Text
Required	No
Repeatable	No
Constraints	Controlled vocabulary
Examples	Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Notes	Based on best practice Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. --> http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNHierarchy?find=&place=&nation=&english=Y&subjectid=7029392. For cultural collections such as economic botany use the Region field to record things like Pacific to replace Oceania.

[cp-weiland]

Lots of the geographical terms are defined in http://www.geonames.org/ontology/ontology_v1.0.rdf, in particular in finer granularity e.g. islands -> tracts of land, smaller than a continent, surrounded by water at high water

[nielsraes]

http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/#continent --> Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. --> http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNHierarchy?find=&place=&nation=&english=Y&subjectid=7029392

[nielsraes]

What about TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) https://www.tdwg.org/standards/wgsrpd/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent

[pzermoglio]

Updating definition to match dwc

Definition	The name of the continent in which the Location occurs.
Dimension
Existing property	dwc:continent
Existing class	Location
Existing property identifier	http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/continent
Format	controlled vocabulary
Required	No
Repeatable	No
Constraints
Examples	Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Notes	This terms refers to the continent from which the collection originated. Recommended best practice is to use a controlled vocabulary such as the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. --> http://www.getty.edu/vow/TGNHierarchy?find=&place=&nation=&english=Y&subjectid=7029392

[rondlg]

One comment to make here is that cultural collections (in the context of natural history) for example economic botany will need a parallel field to Continent. culturalRegion so as not to avoid the use of culturally dubious terms. "Oceania" is an example from our collection where the term Pacific is preferred.

[wouteraddink]

The definition of geographical terms for e.g. continents needs to include a polygon that clearly describes the geographical boundaries of the area. for the TDWG standard Niels was mentioning we have these, or at least had, as shape files at http://www.kew.org/gis/tdwg/index.html

[nielsraes]

For NHCs it is quite relevant to distinguish between temperate and tropical Asia. This is only reflected in the TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions [https://www.tdwg.org/standards/wgsrpd/], but this is at the status of 'Prior standard'. What does that mean?

[nielsraes]

One comment to make here is that cultural collections (in the context of natural history) for example economic botany will need a parallel field to Continent. culturalRegion so as not to avoid the use of culturally dubious terms. "Oceania" is an example from our collection where the term Pacific is preferred.

Is there an existing vocabulary on culturalRegion?

[wouteraddink]

prior standard means that it has not gone through the later developed standards adoption process. It does not mean that it is deprecated, there is however no maintenance group for it.

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